Mobile World Congress: Communology’s Visual Voicemail Now Available for BlackBerry and More


Communology is giving us all of the details concerning Visual Voicemail (VVM), including Visual Voicemail for BlackBerry. Thanks to its optional voice-to-text function, the app can transcribe voicemail to text.  In addition, Communology is now throwing a browser-based VVM widget into the mix. Basic VVM functions will be accessible via almost every internet enabled device imaginable, whether a PC or tablet, or even a Smartphone without mobile VVM apps, such as Windows Phone 7, or iPhones of users who did not subscribe to VVM from their service provider.

Visual Voicemail
VVM provides an easy-to-use, visual user interface for processing voicemail. Messages are downloaded and managed directly on the mobile device and can be answered with just the push of a button. Unlike network-based, conventional voicemail boxes, users can decide themselves which message they wish to listen to first and if and for how long the message is to be stored, just like SMS and email.

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Cologne, Germany, February 1, 2011: At this year’s Mobile World Congress (14- 17 February, Fira de Barcelona, Stand 2B68 in Hall 2) Communology is putting the emphasis on Visual Voicemail (VVM). The software house specialising in mobile phone applications (apps) will unveil a whole range of new solutions, including Visual Voicemail for BlackBerry. Thanks to its optional voice-to-text function, the app can transcribe voicemail to text — certainly a plus for the average BlackBerry user. In addition, Communology is now throwing a browser-based VVM widget into the mix. Basic VVM functions will be accessible via almost every internet enabled device imaginable, whether a PC or tablet, or even a Smartphone without mobile VVM apps, such as Windows Phone 7, or iPhones of users who did not subscribe to VVM from their service provider.

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Communology thus offers an extensive portfolio of VVMsolutions supporting BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7, Android, Java ME, Symbian S60 and Qt platforms.Apps for Brew and Bre w MP devices, which have a strong presence in the North-American market, are also being developed. Communology is also a leader in terms of VVM functions and offers a feature set which resonates above and beyond the OMTP industry standard including, among other things, the voice-to-text feature. Communology will showcase new VVM features in Barcelona such as a convenient sorting function for voicemails, as well as the option of saving multiple greetings on mobile phones which can seamlessly be activated and changed.

Communology allows its clients, among them major mobile phone operators from across the world, to wake up to the possibility of appealing VVM services for a wide range of handsets, and reduce time-to-market and project complexity. Communology doesn’t just offer client software, the necessary servers, or gateways (partly in co-operation with technology partners), and Professional Services. Thanks to on an agreement with patent holder Klausner Technologies, Inc. covering Europe, the VVM package also includes user licences for Visual Voicemail technology.

“As part of our VVM portfolio we’re offering quality assured software for all relevant mobile phone platforms, as well as internet access, server and charging technology, services and the necessary patent licences from a single source. This is how we will maintain our role as a global leader in the market for VVM solutions in the future. This is evidenced in the projects we are currently undertaking in partnership with the largest mobile phone operators across the world”, says Communology’s CEO Thomas Kaehler.

Visual Voicemail
VVM provides an easy-to-use, visual user interface for processing voicemail. Messages are downloaded and managed directly on the mobile device and can be answered with just the push of a button. Unlike network-based, conventional voicemail boxes, users can decide themselves which message they wish to listen to first and if and for how long the message is to be stored, just like SMS and email.

LiveMedia

LiveMedia Visual Voicemail is part of Communology’s successful applications portfolio. Mobile operators can use white label applications for offering ready-to-use products that are adapted to their own specific requirements and customer-specific look and feel under their own brand name. LiveMedia solutions are also available for instant messaging, mobile TV, unified communications, social networking, infotainment and mobile marketing.
At the Mobile World Congress, Communology also will present its MTE (Mobile Test Edition) software and service offerings for app quality management.

via connectedplanetonline